Episode 5: Lace in Your Face (33:44)

We chat lace with guys from all over the country:

• Our favorite vet, Mel of Cabezalana blog was visiting from Maine (DrMel94 on Ravelry);
• Doug, from Southern California and Troy from Belliningham, WA met on Ravelry, then met in person (and with us) in SF; and
• Gene, from Eugene, OR and Lew from Sacramento, CA were "man-"ning the Lacy Knitters Guild booth at Stitches.

Let's let the lace do the talking. Here's the lace inspiration mentioned during this episode:

• QueerJoe
• Herbert Niebling (also a Yahoo group)
• Spirograph
• Yarn-a-go-go's Wedding Stole
• A Gathering of Lace, by Meg Swansen (available from Schoolhouse Press)
• Clapotis by Kate Gilbert
• Mel's completed Shetland-inspired shawl
• Sivia Harding
• Folk Shawls, by Cheryl Oberle
• Things Soo Likes blog
• Lavish Lace from Cherry Tree Hill
• Let's Knit2gether
• Muir by Rosemary Hill
• Victor's lace (from Knitter's Uncensored podcast)
• Last Minute Knitted Gifts airy scarf
• Eugen Beugler patterns at Fiber Trends
• Modern Lace Knitting by Marianne Kinzel
• Mary Walker Phillips
• Brooklyn Tweed's Hemlock Ring blanket (original pattern)
• Hanami stole (modeled below)

Contest winner Art vs. Craft episode
The winner of KnitKnit Issue #7 is KatKrafty. The essay she mentioned is found at redefiningcraft.com

Thank you to everyone who took time to ponder lace with us: Mel, Troy and Doug (thanks for the gifts!), and Gene and Lew. As Michael said, I don't think this is the last time you'll hear lace discussed on Y KNIT.

And, as always, thanks for listening! Leave your thoughts on men and lace in the comments below or in the Ravelry group.

Y Knit? It's poetic!

This show features snippets of these songs:

• "Love is Here to Stay" performed by Bill Evans from the Solo Sessions Volume 2 on Milestone Records (1963)
• "Leather and Lace" performed by the Jolenes from the album Get It to Go on Good Fork Records / IODA (2006)
• "Chantilly Lace" performed by the Big Bopper from Hellooooo Baby: Best of the Big Bopper on Rhino Records (1958)
• "Lace for Boyz" performed by hizKNITS and WonderMike. Engineered by Sex14s (2008). Inspired by the genius of Public Enemy’s “Bring the Noize? from It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back on DefJam Records (1988).